. Electric railway review . s without interferingwith traffic on the street. In developing the double entranceto the main building it was necessary to tear out the southwall and leave open this entire end of the Methods—Air shops and pits throughout the old buildings are pro-vided with air hoists. The air supply is furnished by a Na-tional Electric compressor of 200 cubic feet of air per minutecapacity. It is connected direct to a 5 by 18-foot reservoir in of each plunger is a leather gasket locked with airon washer. A square head, bolted to a 5-inch pipe whichMis in t
. Electric railway review . s without interferingwith traffic on the street. In developing the double entranceto the main building it was necessary to tear out the southwall and leave open this entire end of the Methods—Air shops and pits throughout the old buildings are pro-vided with air hoists. The air supply is furnished by a Na-tional Electric compressor of 200 cubic feet of air per minutecapacity. It is connected direct to a 5 by 18-foot reservoir in of each plunger is a leather gasket locked with airon washer. A square head, bolted to a 5-inch pipe whichMis in the 6-inch pipe and rests on the block filling, serves asa cap to the plunger. This cap may be removed when the Imisiis not in use. Air Is admitted at the bottom of the cylindersby a %-inch connection. Four such hoists, constituting aare placed at such points in the shops where heavy repairwork is done. As will be noted from the illustrations the armature hoists arc very similar in design to the car -body hoists. They ha\e. Shop Practlc* at Memphia — Front of Car Showing Radial Draft Rigging and Automatic Drop Fender. on whlrh ii nnlforn ■• :iM anton -hop nlr tojpplv in On leading from 111«- reserYOll inches in dtanMter. ThU Hi rough the machine and I ancfa ii with tllS main and fiimlRh air for Operating the air lift* • I ths armature fscki in main and branch Ii 10-Inch cylinders, ■inch plungen and have ■ Ufl BbOUl tWO feel. I I i mi ti id the i Armature and Field winding-room of unusual Inten much as Hi • ■ malntali low arn 108 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVII. No. 4. panys equipment of about 300 cars are wound and kept inrunning order by three men. The conditions that make thispossible are due not entirely to the efficiency of the workturned out in this department but particularly to the thor-ough method of motor inspection that is in vogue on thisproperty. On page 117 of this issue will be found an inter IQ-l /<? i/tc/udino HeadTV. ~C
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